Lin Jinrong collected the total amount of gold and silver, and told Li Zhi to send the things to Tao Fengtang as soon as possible the next day, and then asked Aunt Gui to take care of her bathing.
Aunt Gui lowered her eyebrows, lowered her eyes, and slumped her shoulders. Lin Jinrong knew the reason, and sighed slightly. While there was no one in the room, he gave a brief summary to Aunt Gui, and then warned: "This matter is of great importance.
, Mammy has guarded the people in the house for me, and no one is allowed to talk. Otherwise, I will kick them out without mercy!" She said the last sentence in a very serious tone.
"Don't worry, girl, no one will talk nonsense. But if the wife knows about this, I'm afraid she will be very angry. The girl can't help anyone, but she has to help her. In the final analysis, she didn't get the money from the master.
I went. But I really didn’t expect that Aunt Huang would believe the girl and take out her private room." There are not many people in this room, and some of them are loyal. Who would talk nonsense? Aunt Gui.
Although she disagreed, her heart and eyes were full of joy - the girl still regarded her as a reliable person. Look, such an important matter was not hidden from her in the end, and she was asked to check it, so she became more energetic again.
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Lin Jinrong had to explain to this honest woman: "If my father doesn't give it to Aunt Huang, how can we dig it out? If we can't dig it out, he would rather use it to buy his favorite things. My mother's money,
No one can do anything to her if she refuses to take it out, but if someone really cares about her, it would be ugly to make a fuss." She raised her lips, "What Aunt Huang wants is for the fifth brother to be stable and wealthy, and she will do the rest.
I don’t dare to think about it anymore. If I help her, I’m helping myself.”
Aunt Huang is willing to get close to her for mutual benefit, which shows that she is not short-sighted. She must have had other thoughts earlier, but after Lin Shenzhi entered the old man's study, those thoughts were probably gone. There is a difference between concubine and concubine.
, the same as in ancient and modern times, if Lin Yizhi is a talented person, it doesn't matter, but he is just such a person, and the mud can't stick to the wall, so what can he do?
Nowadays, no one relies on the little money from the father-in-law to get married. They have to supplement the amount. Lin Yi's four first cousins are all direct descendants. It is normal for a mother to take out any amount of dowry to supplement the marriage. What is abnormal is the third wife.
.Compared with the first four, Lin Yizhi suddenly lost a lot of money. He couldn't save face. He took it out to hold his breath, otherwise he would be plotted. Since Lin Yizhi's mother and son can solve the problem on their own, why should she stop it? Is it still possible?
Do you want them to drag down your mother and younger brother? No. What’s more, borrowing chickens to lay eggs is such a good deal?
Aunt Gui saw the smile on her lips. Although she didn't understand her words, she smiled with her and rubbed the fragrant bath beans on Lin Jinrong's snow-white and delicate body, which still looked green.
"Mommy, you're not busy. I'm going to take a bath first. You go out and wait for me to call you." Lin Jinrong closed her eyes slightly and pressed her body tightly against the cedar wood bathtub. An abnormal blush appeared on her fair face.
These days, Aunt Gui has become accustomed to her habit of being alone for a while while taking a bath, so she put down her things and left without saying anything.
After the door was closed, Lin Jinrong tightly grasped the edge of the cedar wood bathtub. The hot and fragrant bath water was swaying around her. She should have been extremely comfortable, but something in the water seemed to be holding her heart tightly and refusing to relax.
There was a hint of ruthlessness on her face. She closed her eyes, took a deep breath, shrank her head, and forced herself to immerse her entire head and face in the water.
Warm water squeezed towards her from all directions, and she could feel the warmth in every pore. However, her heart was cold, and she could feel the coldness in every inch of her skin and every drop of blood.
It seemed like a lifetime had passed, until the water became a little cold. She raised her head and sat up from the water with a bang. She looked up to the sky and took a big breath. Her hands that were tightly clenched on the edge of the cedar wood bathtub were already turning white.
Lin Jinrong let go of his hand, wiped a handful of water from his face, and squinted his eyes slightly to look at the hourglass on the table. The silver sand was like a silver thread, flowing down thinly and without any hindrance. The accumulated silver sand was higher than before.
A little bit. She leaned against the wall of the bathtub and smiled in relief. One day, she would no longer be afraid of the things that scared her in her dreams and during the day, such as water and people.
A good night's sleep, the autumn wind and rain are just a foil.
At three o'clock in the morning, Mrs. Tao took Lin Shenzhi's hand and, together with Lin Jinyin, sent Wu away with red eyes. Mr. Lin was entrusted by Mrs. Lin to replace Mr. Lin San, who was unable to attend the farewell mission due to injury.
, watched the Tao family’s carriage disappear into the early morning mist with warm and friendly manners.
At the right time, Old Mrs. Lin had finished dressing up and was sitting upright, waiting for greetings from her son, daughter-in-law, grandson and granddaughter. When the youngest Lin Shenzhi finished her ceremony and was taken to Tingtao Residence by Chun Ya, she was full of emotions.
The wrinkled old face slowly turned to the eldest daughter-in-law Zhou. Zhou shrank her eyes and looked at Mrs. Tao and Lin Jinyin who were standing quietly aside, as well as Mr. Luo who was standing behind Mrs. Lin and sneered slightly. In the end, she just sighed.
, whispered: "Third girl, the old lady wants to say something to us. You can lead your fifth sister and retreat together."
It's time to settle the score! Lin Jinyin instinctively sensed the danger and forced herself to calmly salute, but her eyes looked at Tao in panic. She saw Tao looking at the deep green emerald above the old lady's head without looking away.
Chai, his expression is extremely calm.
Lin Jinyin heard herself sighing invisibly, holding her skirt, and was about to kneel down to Mrs. Lin to apologize, but she heard Mrs. Tao say: "Third girl, why don't you go?" Lin Jinyin turned around and said to her.
When I met Tao's bright eyes, there was an indescribable joy and confidence in his eyes.
What gave Mrs. Tao such a look? Did her aunt really give her some good ideas? Lin Jinyin had some questions, but was dragged out by Lin Wu.
Then came the long, anxious wait.
On this day, Lin Jinrong was equally frightened. He spread out a piece of paper early in the morning, and at noon he could only write two and a half words, and then he just held the pen in a daze. At one time, he heard that Mrs. Lin was talking to Mrs. Lin alone. At another time, she heard that the three
The wife contradicted the old lady and was punished by kneeling down. After a while, she said that the third wife fainted before she even knelt down and was asking the doctor to hold her pulse.
Lin Jinrong couldn't believe that at this moment - Mr. Wu had just left, he had not yet been released from the ban, Lin Shenzhi had just entered the old man's study, and Mr. Lin San was still injured, Tao would deliberately contradict and anger the old lady in such a short-sighted way.
, everything was just a continuation of that day at the birthday banquet. Tao actually fainted and pretended to be sick to avoid the punishment of kneeling down, instead of confronting him head-on. She was really impressed.
The news that came immediately surprised her. Mrs. Tao helped her to recover from Ximai! Two months of pregnancy is the most powerful talisman. At this age, Mr. Lin San has only one legitimate son, which is too few.
Anyone who still thinks about settling accounts with Tao, an elderly pregnant woman who is being married by a clear matchmaker, just doesn't have the eyes and the foresight, and is deliberately trying to cause death.
Some people held their foreheads in celebration, while others were so frustrated that they wanted to scratch the wall. Lin Jinrong had a smile on her face, but she was extremely confused in her heart. How could this happen? In her previous life, Mrs. Tao did not have this child at all. After giving birth to Lin Shen, she There was no news about her belly. Not only her, but also the concubines and the girls who married the third master later, no one had a bulging belly. Throughout her life, she had only one sister, one brother-in-law, and one brother. .
So, will this be a younger brother or a younger sister? The ink-soaked brush in Lin Jinrong's hand waited for a long time before the owner could put it down. Finally, a drop of ink dropped heavily and spread out on the rice paper. A blurry flower. Lin Jinrong stared at the blooming flower and frowned slightly. What changes would this bring?
Mother Gong squatted in the shelter of the corridor, fanning the small stove for boiling tonics, preparing to boil a jar of tonics for Mrs. Tao. She was pregnant at this age, how could she carelessly serve him?
The faint smell of medicine passed through the green cloth curtain and entered the room. Lin Jinyin looked at Tao who was lying on the bed nursing her baby with sadness. On the bright red silk satin pillow, there was Tao's bright face. She looked up at the tent ceiling embroidered with lilies, her eyebrows filled with joy and pride that could not be concealed.
She felt that today was such a relief. She had not provoked the old lady earlier, but the old lady got angry for no reason while she was serving tea, and then took the opportunity to punish her, in order to suppress her and tell her to go down. She didn't dare to contradict her again. After that, she fainted and her pulse was diagnosed. Zhou always tried to calm things down and pretend to be a good person, but Luo ridiculed that she had known it for a long time and deliberately kept it as a talisman. The old lady also scolded her with a livid face. At her age, she didn't even know she was pregnant. It would be her own fault if she really had a baby.
Yes, for them, of course everything is her fault.
She is a mother of three children, so she is well aware of this kind of thing. She didn't mean not to say it earlier, but because at that time Lin Jinrong had just been frightened by her second wife and fell ill. She was extremely angry and depressed, and she had no idea about her little life. I didn't even notice when I came. I knew it was the old lady's birthday, so she deliberately didn't tell her at that time. She wanted to see that after Wu left, the old lady would settle the score with her aggressively, and then she would be deflated and full of food. He looked angry but could not show his anger.
She was just impulsive and refused to bend. She was not stupid. Tao smiled slightly and winked at her eldest daughter happily: "Ayin, don't be afraid. This matter just passed. You didn't see it, you The expressions on my grandmother’s and second aunt’s faces at that time made me laugh to death.”
Lin Jinyin forced out a smile. If she wasn't afraid, how could she not be afraid? She didn't say anything else, just saying that her mother was so old, it would be like going to hell. What if... She shivered for life. , she simply couldn’t imagine the consequences of losing Tao. In this family, Tao was their support.
Mrs. Tao didn't think much about it. She put her hand gently on her lower abdomen and said with infinite longing: "Do you think it's a younger brother or a younger sister? I want to have another son. They support each other and are promising. In the future, you two He can also stand firm in his husband's house."
Lin Jinyin put away her worries and laughed with her: "Seventh brother hasn't changed his teeth yet, let's ask him when he comes back!"
Xia Ye walked in with a smile: "Madam, Aunt Gui from the fourth girl's side is here to congratulate you and the fourth girl."
Both daughters are extremely sensible and filial. Mrs. Tao's eyes lit up and she said with a smile: "Let her in quickly!" (To be continued)